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On The Rocks, Jen Mazlymian

Bryant Literary Review

He sat on the rocks

by the shoe

Staring at the sea

Mono No Aware, W.W. Harris

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a part of me is still

drowning beside

Plum Rains (梅雨), Claire Kuo

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Tissue paper petals

wilt under the weight

I Drop Your Photograph In The Sea, Claire Kuo

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But I am the sailor submerged

in your endless blue --

Submersion, Meg Peters

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Before anything else, there is water.

God Spoke To Me Through The Car Stereo, Alexa O'Kane

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I was twelve.

The woman with the crooked teeth

Told me I was a pearl,

I Have Felt For A While That..., Nichole Page

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Time is passing too quickly again

and I have not had enough time to hold you

Why I Cry For Little Girls, Julia Raboy

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I like working with little kids, and since I have been old enough to be employable, my main source of income has been from childcare: camp counselor, babysitter, nursery school “teacher,” etc.

La Escucho, Leah Ryan

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When I started my career as a passionate photojournalist, I never expected it to be my demise. I was a naïve 20-something-year-old, ready to leave the United States and travel the world, capturing its majesty with the click of a lens. That was when there was beauty to capture…

Zine Group A, Hailey Aspinwell, Tyler Amato, Ashlee Anderson, Destiny Andrade, Allison Beck, Owen Lavelle, Kenny Dyson, Vishal Fatania

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No abstract provided.

Creativity And The Arts, Jenna Gardner, Megan Skasen, Erica Barley, Carley Pearson, Abby Rae, Lucy Smith, Owen Lavelle, Adibhav Gupta

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Lcs Group C, Abigail Rae, Conor Manning, Darian Ramos, Derek Frame, Gabrielle Weiner, Haozhe Li, Juliana Mandile, Kasey Thomas, Yiming Huang

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Lcs Zine Group, Julia Robertson, Liam Peterson, Collin Acampora, Hannah Bloomwald, Megan Lawlor, Maya Nguyen

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Art, Arash Boostani, Katharine Babbitt

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Red, John Famiglietti, Samantha Grennon, Jacob Goodman, Rylee Wirtanen, Griffin Gosule, Kyriana Chambo, Carolyn Reimer, Hunter Poitras

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The Clearest Night Sky, Carla Mcgill

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The ending was glass breaking

stones falling from cliffs

The ending was a cat’s purr

the vanishing foam of waves

on all the shores he loved

The Flood, Elizabeth Underwood

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I wake

and I am alive

but the wine in my glass

from the night before

is dead.

Let Go, Jane Flint

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Ten minutes

to pack up all my things

like a pocket

turning inside out

Fantasy, Joseph Murphy

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When I hear the mountain’s voice, words rise from a burnt page and a door in my heart swings open.

The Music Box, Cliff Saunders

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Sing the gap between food and electricity

into a spirit unlike any other.

Bedside Vigil, Catherine Jagoe

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Because each night when I was pregnant

my husband rubbed my aching feet

and still does, when I’m grieving or in such pain

Red Fox On Zaleski Trail, Deborah Fleming

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Vinton County, Ohio

On the trail through hillsides

twice shorn of woodlands

Borders, Mary Makofske

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Drawn in ink or blood,
they unspool from history
to split mountains and valleys,
meander in rivers that twist

Rattlesnake Religion, Sarah Morgan

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We tried to trap rabbits
lit ants on fire with matchsticks

Ode To A Lobster, Joshua Gage

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Here, between thick-cut filets
and a sheet of crushed ice
bearing slabs of cod and salmon,
a tank of frothing water
and a lone lobster.

The Ventriloquist Toasts Her Teddies, Rikki Santer

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Here’s to my set-up like so many before me—
To the vice grip of acne maps & stammering

Chemo, Carolyn Adams

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As you turn to the oncoming magic,
what subsumes?

Because everything can’t stay
at the surface, what is forgotten?

Silent Elegy, Anna Leigh Morrow

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What I want to say is

there are no words.

The Missing You settles beneath my ribs like

After Blake’S Songs Of Innocence And Experience, William Derge

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(on a work of art by Lisa Sheirer entitled Water Stories – Lilypons 2)

I.

Things were pretty clear then,
the pencil thin lines of reeds, curved like the hairs on a stevedore’s arm,
the sculptured reflections of clouds,
scabbing bark of sycamores or
rust scars on seasoned machinery,

Mud Minor Mass, Kevin Walker

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Even Johann Sebastian Bach
had to fake it through the mirk
on merciless days,